This popped up yesterday: if you want to build a large cluster of
machines with humungous amounts of processing power (beowulf), would you
put one or two processors in each node?
My suggestion was to use two. However someone remarked that you'd
congest the memory bus. In short, it depends on the application.
Now as an alternative I suggested putting one REAL processor on each
node (P-II/400) and one that does all the nasty side-tasks (say a
P-II/200)
That should allow the compute-intensive task to run at 100% CPU (not
just 98%) leaving all the interrupts and other stuff to the other
processor.
My guess is that this will hapen in 50% of the cases, and in the other
50% of the cases, the CPU-intensive task will end up on the P-II/200
and the 400MHz beast will be idle except for servicing interrupts....
Roger.
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